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April 16th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Nigeria says 6,000 police and soldiers will be deployed to protect the capital Abuja during a World Economic Forum (WEF) next month.
Tuesday’s announcement came following a bombing attack by suspected members of the Boko Haram militant group at a crowded bus station in Abuja on Monday.
Heads of state and business leaders from Africa are set to take part at the WEF summit on May 7-9.
“Our security planning for the World Economic Forum on Africa is already well under way and will be the largest security operation ever mounted in this country for an international summit,” said Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
She called Monday’s attack a “suspected act of terrorism,” adding that Nigerian security agencies were “currently in the middle of a robust and thorough investigation to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice.”
On Monday, more than 70 people died and about 200 others were injured when a car laden with improvised explosive devices exploded at the Nyanya Motor Park.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but Boko Haram members are usually blamed for such assaults.
Earlier on Tuesday, suspected members of Boko Haram abducted about 100 female students from a school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria
Boko Haram has carried out several deadly gun and bomb attacks in various parts of Nigeria since 2009.
On May 15, 2013, the Nigerian army launched an offensive against the militant group a day after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the three northeastern states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa.
Boko Haram — whose name means “Western education is forbidden” — says its goal is to overthrow the Nigerian government.
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